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THE most humble day of my life,” is how Rupert Murdoch, the boss of News Corporation, described his experience being excoriated by British parliamentarians in July 2011. Accusations of phone hacking, police bribery and negligence involving Mr Murdoch’s News …

IN FEBRUARY 1928 the Supreme Court heard the case of Roy Olmstead, whose conviction on bootlegging charges relied on evidence obtained by tapping his phones. Olmstead contended that this violated the fourth amendment, which protects against “unreasonable searches and seizures”. The court disagreed: it held that …

British prosecutors accused a group of former top journalists at News Corp.’s NWSA -0.32% now-closed News of the World tabloid—including former editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson—of conspiring to hack the voice mail of more than 600 celebrities, sports stars, politicians and …

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to address one of the biggest controversies surrounding the response to the Sept. 11 attacks – the government’s aggressive use of electronic surveillance. The justices will decide whether a challenge to a 2008 federal law …

A Google Inc. GOOG -0.08% engineer told others at the company about his plan to scoop up personal information from wireless-network users as specially equipped cars drove by their homes, but the practice continued for two years after the internal disclosures, a Federal Communications Commission investigation …

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